The Zone
Line Series Photos
By Mark Lindquist
Photographic images © Mark Lindquist 1980
Mark Lindquist
began photography in the late 1960's. The Zone Line
Photographs
are close-up (macro) photographs of select pieces of spalted wood
that Mark
carefully chose for figure and calligraphic image content. The
early black and white
Zone Line Series photos were printed on fiber-based archival
papers
by Mark and his wife Kathy in the New Hampshire studio beginning
in 1979.
The announcement above is from the first exhibit of the Zone Line
photos in a
commercial gallery. The ZLP shown above is titled Tzu
Jan, was shot in 1980
(from a piece of spalted maple) with a Mamiya M645 with macro
bellows,
and was printed on Zone VI Brilliant
photographic paper.
The Chinese used
the words "Tzu Jan" to describe the characteristics of
brush strokes
which came alive like "the birds' flight." Japanese
calligraphers captured the essence of
their materials and their subjects through the deft manipulation
of their brushes.
lindquiststudios.com
20
Sep 1997